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> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnu.org>
> Date: 09 Feb 2006 19:05:44 -0500
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > IANAL, so if these instructions are changed, I won't mind.  I just
> > want them to be clear and unequivocal, and uniform across all the
> > packages that are part of the GNU project.
> 
> emacs and its maintenance regimen precede GNU, so it is not surprising
> that there is policy discrepency.

Did you see this bit in standards.texi?

    @title GNU Coding Standards
    @author Richard Stallman, et al.

Richard is the maintainer of standards.texi, so I see no place for
discrepancy, only for some oversight.